Description:The funeral cortege of Chief Superintendent Alfred Tozer of the Birmingham Fire Brigade on 28 April 1906. Supt Tozer, whose father and grandfather had been firemen before him, came to Birmingham in 1879 and was instrumental in developing a modern fire brigade for the city. The funeral took place at St Bartholomew's, the parish church of Edgbaston, the photograph having been taken in Church Road. According to the original caption some of the people seen here were veterans of the Crimean War which had taken place fifty years before, and this presumably relates to the fact that Supt Tozer's father had overseen the fire arrangements at the Scutari and other Crimean War hospitals.